Obama holds talks with Zardari, Karzai

By Ashish Kumar Sen from The Tribune
US President Barack Obama met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House on Wednesday and urged them to jointly tackle the threat posed by the Taliban in their countries. Neither Zardari nor Karzai are seen likely to be able to deliver on [...]

Substantial rise in infiltration: Army chief

From The Daily Excelsior
NEW DELHI, Apr 28:Infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir, helped by Pakistani establishment, has risen substantially, with March recording the highest influx as compared to the corresponding month in the last seven years.
Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor today said there was information about more militants preparing to infiltrate into India and [...]

Not a joke

From the editor desk, The Assam Tribune
A beleaguered LTTE has declared a unilateral truce in a bid to stem the advance of the Sri Lankan army, the last bastion of Velupillai Prabhakaran’s loyalists now being confined to just 5 sq km strip of land in the Wanni region. It is unfortunate that Sri Lanka has [...]

Lanka rejects LTTE’s ceasefire offer

By Chandani Kirinde from the Tribune
An offer of an immediate unilateral ceasefire in the north by the beleaguered Tamil Tigers on Sunday was rejected by the Sri Lankan Government. The Media Centre for National Security in Colombo called the ceasefire announcement a gimmick. The LTTE announcement came as the UN under Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs [...]

LeT, JeM, LeJ join hands under ‘Muslim United Army’

From Daily excelsior
Banned terrorist groups in Pakistan’s Punjab province are gaining strength after joining hands on a new platform – Muslim United Army – and have become a serious challenge for the Government which lacks resources to effectively counter their activities.
The banned groups-Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi – have a common cause under the banner of [...]

Pakistani forces enter cleric Sufi Mohammad’s village

From Sindhtoday.net
Pakistani security forces Saturday entered Kalpani, the ancestral village of Taliban-backed radical cleric Sufi Mohammad in the northwest but the move was apparently not linked to his threat to impose Sharia laws across the country.
Security forces have started consolidating their positions and military gunships were flying over the area, Geo TV reported, quoting well-placed [...]

Top LTTE leaders ‘Daya Master’, George surrender

From Meritimes.com
IN A major setback to the Tamil Tigers, two top LTTE leaders are reported to have surrendered to the Sri Lankan forces after all escape routes seem to have been plugged for the terrorists, on Wednesday afternoon (April 22).
‘Daya Master’, who reportedly belongs to Prabhakaran’s inner circle and George, gave themselves up to the [...]

Mehsud threat to White House

By Shafqat Ali From The Asian Age
March 31: Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, claiming responsibility for Monday’s terror attack on the police academy in Lahore, on Tuesday threatened to launch an “amazing” strike on Washington, and to blow up the White House, in retaliation for a series of attacks by US military drones in Pakistan’s [...]

Blast kills 1 in Assam, Pranab has close shave

From the Asian age
March 31: A powerful bomb blast at an election rally site in Guwahati, where external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee was due to speak, killed one person and injured 15 others on Tuesday evening. The police suspects that Ulfa was responsible.
The improvised explosive device, fitted in a TVS motorcycle (AS 14-7924), went off [...]

Terror bid by Dawood foiled

From Deccan Chronicle
March 30: The state police and intelligence agencies have unearthed a conspiracy by the Dawood Ibrahim gang to assassinate prominent national politicians and disrupt the Lok Sabha elections in the state.
The police has arrested five gangsters owing allegiance to Dawood’s right hand man Chhota Shakeel including Rashid Malbari in connection with the plot.
Director-general [...]